Different sorts of Counterstrike Source Modifications
Counter strike has always been known for being full of different mods and add-ons to create a truly unique style of game play on each server. With wide a range of things like administration scripts, game type modifiers, protection scripts etc it is very hard to look at everyone but we will look at some of the most common and popular. This will be useful for figuring out how to setup mods on CSS Servers .
Mani Admin Plugin
Arguably the most well know modification on CSS and Team Fortress 2 game servers . Mani Admin is a very popular choice for server administration which is written in C++ and one of two of the top admin mods. With the complete range of day to day admin things like kick, ban and map changes etc. Players can initiate votes for certain things if enabled. The plugin also has support for custom admin skins as well as the custom sounds like Quake. The down side with the mod is that it has been known to have some quite large exploits in it and so a prime target for hackers.
Metamod Source
Metamod interacts with the engine and the game and allows it to interact with the commands that go between the two layers. This is just a base to allow other modders to build there plugins from. This as well is a C++ plugin and has been designed to not have unnecessary functions like MySQL or game play modifications.
Sourcemod
There are plenty of game servers that use Sourcemod as a modification . Sourcemod like Mani is an admin plugin that will need you have Metamod installed first to use it. The basic mod contains all the necessary admin functions including a fine tuneable permissions system, kick, ban etc. Reserved slots are a handy function to always allow you and your friends to get on your own server without having to wait for a free slot. Public voting can also be enabled within the mod as well. Sourcemod has in excess of 450 approved addons for the mod from the community. I personally prefer Sourcemod over Maniadmin as it has always been a more robust mod with an easy and intuitive interface.
Mattie’s EventScripts
Eventscripts has been designed to add extrea functions by writing your own scripts of use one of the hundreds that members of the community have created. The eventscripts language itself has been designed to be easy to learn and use. Eventscripts will even allow you to make use of the Python scripting language.
GunGame
One of the most popular game modifiers for Counter Strike and turns the game into a level based system. Starting off with low power weapons like pistols and advancing through to higher levels by killing the opposition and the last of the levels require the most skill with the likes of HE grenades and then a knife. A very popular script for sourcemod submitted by the community and is often used along side CSS deathmatch.
CSS Deathmatch
This mod turns CSS into a HL2 style deathmatch game allowing either team or free for all games. You get spawned to a random part of each map after death and get your weapons by selecting from a menu.
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